1238 
Gardeners and Florists’ Annual for }9S8 
f 
Rhododendron lace fly 197 
Ribbons, trade sizes of 198 
Roof gardening 32 
Root-knot (See also Eelworms) 174 
Rose aphis, controlling 198 
Rose bushes, checking black spot on 197 
Rose chafer 198 
Roses, cutting and grading of 199 
Round of the year 17 
Ruhleban, German camp for British 
prisoners 28 
Rules, notes and recipes 167 
Rust, removing from steel 200 
St. Valentine’s Day, corsage bouquet, 
of Lily of the Valley for 141 
San Jose scale 198 
Scale insects 199 
School Nature League 28 
Scum on ponds 200 
Scum on soil 200 
Season and the crops 18 
Seasons, the 89 , 
Seed and nursery catalogs 83 
Seed trade, round of the year in the ... 69 
Selling on commission 152 
Selling price adjusting 88 
Selling stock 151 
September, work for, in greenhouses 101 
Shading, wash for 201 
Shamrock plants 28 
Shasta Daisies, field of 136 
Shippers, some suggestions for . : 74 
• Shipping and packing plants 151 
Skinner irrigation system 205 
Slugs and snails 201 
Snails and slugs 201 
Society of American Florists 48 
Societies, addresses of 219-235 
Soil acidity 203; correcting 21 
Soil, scum on 200 
Soil sterilization 201 
South, greenhouse stock in the 117 
South, planting table for vegetables 
in the ■ 122 
South, vegetable and fruit gardens in 
the, cultural reminders for 120 
Sow bugs, remedy for 202 
Special articles in 1915 edition, list of . . 71 
Special articles in 1916 edition, list of.... 70 
Special articles in 1917 edition, list of.... 69 
Special articles in present edition .... 69-89 
Spinach seed 28 
Sprayers and sprajung 203 
Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, 
publication of 30 
State flowers and State nicknames 166 
State forests 204 
Steel, rust on, removing 200 
Sterilization of soil 201 
Stock, marketing and selling 151 
Stock-taking 150 
Store window, photographing a 195 
Sulphuric acid as a fungicide 204 
Sulphuric ^cid for Sweet Pea seeds 204 
Sunday closing in New York 37 
Sweet Pea seeds, sulphuric acid for 204 
Sweet Peas, new Concord t . . . 33 
Sweet Peas, select Summer flowering.. . 166 
"Tales of a Traveler” 33 
Temperatures, low 25 
Tent caterpillars 191-205 
Test for soil acidity 204 
Tomato, the 24 
Transportation by express 17 
Tree packing machine 146 
Tree surgery 205 
Trees, transplanting 206 
Trees, young, reviving 197 
Truck grower’s calendar 114 
Tussock moth 206 
Typewriten letters 157 
United States Florists _ 31 
University of Illinois, collection of 
portraits _ 28 
Vegetable and fruit garden in California, 
cultural reminders of the year for. . .129 
■\’egetable and fruit gardens inthe South, 
cultural reminders for 120 
Vegetable and fruit garden, reminders 
for 112 
Vegetable crops under glass 77 
Vegetable crops, when to start planting, 
table for greenhouse and frame crops. 78 
Vegetable Growers’ Ass’n of America. . 48 
V’egetables, home drying of and fruits. .207 
Vegetables in the South, planting table 
for 122 
Vilmorin, house of 35 
War shrines 21 
Weed killers 208 
Weeds, control of . . . .207 
White fly, using potassium cyanide 
against , 208 
White grubs destroying grass 185 
Whitewash, 208; removing 209 
Wholesale commission agents in New 
York close on Sunday 37 
Wilson, E. H., expedition to Korea. ... 24 
W’indow boxes 209 
Window, photographing a . . . ._ 195 
Windows, to prevent dimming of by 
moisture 209 
Women in floral establishments and 
nurseries 32 
Worms in pots and lawns 210 
Year, round of in the seed trade 69 
Year’s survey of events 17 
Year’s work in commercial green- 
houses 91 
Yew planted near Geo. Washington’s 
tom b 30 
